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Rachael FultonNov 7, 20205 minDaleks in The Clyde: Glasgow's Street Art RenaissanceAlong a short stretch of Argyle Street, before the road melts into the West End, painted people stop passers-by in their tracks....
Rachael FultonNov 7, 20204 minLeft Destitute: Glasgow's Forgotten Asylum SeekersWinner of Refugee Week Media Award 2013 Sitting on a battered couch in a West End church beneath a poster of Glasgow, Michael Smith talks...
Rachael FultonNov 5, 20205 minMission To Help The HomelessEvery Autumn, schools, businesses and churches around Glasgow collect tins of food to give to the city's homeless and disadvantaged...
Rachael FultonNov 5, 20204 minLast Chance for a Cup of Tchai?The aroma of chai and charcoal and the clink of teacups are a source of comfort for many in the west end. In a tiny tearoom overlooking...
Rachael FultonNov 5, 20204 minLiving The End of Life As Best They Can: Marie Curie Hospice"Laughter is the best tonic in the world. Without it what would you do?" says James Coyle, sipping a cup of tea. Nestled side-by-side in...
Rachael FultonNov 5, 20205 minSimon Community: Helping Glasgow's HomelessIt's just a three-inch piece of folded card to most, a throwaway leaflet covered in phone numbers. To other people, the tiny booklet is a...
Rachael FultonNov 5, 20204 minDear Green Places: The Fight for North Kelvin MeadowAlthough given the moniker Dear Green Place, it's looming tenement blocks, high rises and miles of pavement that knit our city together....
Rachael FultonNov 5, 20205 minSelling Sex in Our CityThe street-corner stereotype of prostitutes leaning into car windows is becoming outdated. Glasgow's sex trade is moving off the street,...
Rachael FultonNov 5, 20205 minInsane Championship Wrestling: Lycra & LambriniMost '90s kids have, at one time, moonsaulted from an armchair onto an unsuspecting sibling, or choke-slammed one of their stuffed...
Rachael FultonNov 4, 20203 minGlasgow's Tribute to An Gorta Mor: The Great HungerIn the streets of Dublin, statues of skeletal refugees, their heads cowed, pay silent tribute to a generation tragically lost. Their...
Rachael FultonNov 4, 20205 minRise Water Nymphs, Racing Clocks & Empire: Glasgow's Public ArtworksTucked away on Tontine Lane, the cinema-sign artwork of a homegrown Turner prize winner flickers to an audience of none. Empire, the...
Rachael FultonNov 4, 20203 minMade in Scotland: Scottish Opera's Five-15"Opera is all about storytelling. When people come and see it they get absolutely wrapped up in the drama of the storytelling. "The music...
Rachael FultonNov 4, 20203 minA Day In The Life of a Griphouse Dinky Ninja"This is a rough and ready gym by the way, none of your LA Fitness or whatever you're used to." Danny Gray's warning as we entered...
Rachael FultonNov 4, 20204 minBohemian Bookshop Laments Loss of David & Goliath BattleVoltaire and Rousseau is an eclectic bookshop with a clientele to match. Foraging amongst the endless stacks of second-hand books,...
Rachael FultonNov 4, 20204 minExploring the East End: Cranhill & Sugarolly MountainsThe East End landscape juxtaposes its jarring past and future: decaying high rises awaiting demolition to one side, the gleaming new Sir...
Rachael FultonNov 4, 20204 minThe Urban Foxes and Queer Fishes of Alasdair Gray's Mural"Do not let daily to-ing and fro-ing, to earn what we need to keep going, prevent what you once felt when wee - hopeful and free." So...
Rachael FultonNov 4, 20202 minBard In The Botanics: The Tempest (STV)Article originally written and published for STV Local stv.tv "Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all, and another...